TO KARL RADEK

Written:Written on September 19, 1915Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIV.

      Sent from Sörenberg to Berne.

      Printed from the original in German.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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Manythanks for the manifesto and
report.[1]

(1)Couldwe havegratis20 copies of this issue ofBerner
Tagwacht, to send to our Party groups?

(2)Inthe manifesto, the words “revolutionaryproletarian class struggle” have been replaced by the word
“irreconcilable”. Is thatloyalon Grimm’s part?

(3)Thereport doesnotsay that a part (one-tenth) of
theGermandelegation (and one-third of the Swiss) signed
our draft resolution.

Isthat loyal on Grimm’s part?

Youropinion, please: ought we notofficiallyto write
to Grimm about this?

(4)DoesGrimm guarantee that in thedetailedreport
(the minutes of the sessions) our draft and our statement
will be included in full?

(5)Thereare many inaccuracies in the report, andnot
a wordabout the voting (on our draft)!

Thequestion of a split and of the dissolution ofthisBureau (Grimm and Co.) wasnotvoted
on.[2]

Wemust do something.

Yours,Lenin

P.S.Please, send me our draft and our
statement.[3]

Grimmdoes not say a wordabout our
booklet[4](=
report)! What a rogue!

[1]Areference to the manifesto adopted by the First International
Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, and a report on it carried,
with some distortions, byBerner Tagwacht(Berne Sentinel)
No. 218, September 18, 1915, and inBulletin der I.S.K.(I.S.C.
Bulletin) No. 1, September 21, 1915.

[2]Areference to the International Socialist Commission (I.S.C.)
in Berne, the executive of the Zimmerwald group, set up at the
Zimmerwald Conference held from September 5 to 8, 1915. On
the I.S.C. were the Centrists R. Grimm, O. Morgari, Charles Naine
and A. Balabanova, who acted as interpreter. The official report
of the Conference, which appeared inBulletin der I.S.K.on
September 21, 1915, said: “This Secretariat must in no case
substitute for the existing International Bureau but must be dissolved
as soon as the latter is in a position to play its proper role.” =

The
copy at the Central Party Archives of the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee shows this place
underlined by Lenin with the following note in the margin: “Kein
Beschluss darüber” (No decision on this).

[3]Thedraft resolution proposed by the Zimmerwald Left and a
statement giving the motives on which the Left Social-Democrats
voted for the official manifesto at the Conference.

[4]Areference to the pamphletSocialism and War.